Garden Antiques at NY Botanical Garden
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- April
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This marks the 16th anniversary of the prestigious Antique Garden Furniture Show and Sale. The show runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. all three days.
Three dozen exhibitors from around the country will be displaying more garden furniture than ever, the Botanical Garden says. Look for matching sets of tables and chairs in cast and wrought iron, paired urns and statue sets, antique fountains and benches, bird cages and botanical prints.
Ornaments in the show date from 1705 to the 1950s.
Animal forms continue to be particularly popular at these sorts of shows. This year, you’ll find eagles, storks, bulldogs, greyhounds, lions, sphinxes and stags.
Local dealers include Barbara Israel Garden Antiques of Katonah, Avant Garden of Pound Ridge and Fleur of Mount Kisco, which is bringing a charming set of four faux bois twig chairs from 1920s France.
Israel, who is considered the premier dealer and authority on garden antiques in the country, will have a forest-themed booth this year with statues of hunters and their prey, including an 1890 composition stone lion from England.
Wind in the Willows from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques in Katonah:
Arcadian figures from Barbara Israel:
Garden antique specialists will offer tours and lectures daily. Israel will give a talk on “Appropriate Ornament for Your Garden Type” at 3 p.m. Friday and again at 1 p.m. Saturday.
As in years past, the show will be held in a tent surrounded by flowering trees, shrubs and perennials outside the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. The show will be included in the All-Garden Pass that gives you access to everything at the Botanical Garden; tickets are $20 for adults, $18 for seniors and $7 for children.
This is a particularly glorious time of year in many parts of the garden, with thousands of bulbs and flowering shrubs and trees in full bloom. Another show, “Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure,” also opens this weekend.
Advance tickets are available online at www.nybg.org or call 718-817-8700 for more information. The Botanical Garden is off the Bronx River Parkway at Exit 7W and Fordham Road.
The garden antiques show kicks off with a Benefit Preview Party and Collectors’ Plant Sale from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday. Ticket prices start at $200; call 718-817-8885 for more information.
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
